Katrina's Legal Legacy: Evidence Washed away.
The NY Times today reported on what we knew was coming: as many as 500 defendants, mostly in drug, theft and assault cases, have been freed because of problems with evidence (as much as 90% of pending case evidence, it seems, had been stored in paper containers), including difficulty in finding the witnesses who have moved away, a shortage of jurors, possibly ruined DNA samples and other factors.
posted by Mr. Barkan @ 7:18 PM
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